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that is to support the constitution of the united states. when you're making laws, it is not your prerogative to put your party first. host: mr. woodward. guest: that, as i point out, in the book, there is a scene after scene where the republicans show that they're not going to budge on some of these things. in their view, they are adhering to the constitution. in their view, they're doing what is necessary. the key point here is that speaker boehner is the nominal leader of republicans in the house and opened these negotiations last year with the president. there were all kinds of offers and discussions going back and forth on this. you can see the detail. you may blame obama. you may blame the republicans. you may blame me for writing about it. whenever it is. this is, if you will, the performance review. this is what we always used to call the best obtainable version of the truth. host: 1 last phone call for you, republican line in south carolina. caller: thank you, sir. please let me state a few facts. don't cut me off. host: we don't ha
that is to support the constitution of the united states. when you're making laws, it is not your prerogative to put your party first. host: mr. woodward. guest: that, as i point out, in the book, there is a scene after scene where the republicans show that they're not going to budge on some of these things. in their view, they are adhering to the constitution. in their view, they're doing what is necessary. the key point here is that speaker boehner is the nominal leader of republicans in the...
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states economy that if we wouldn't have helped out temporarily, that we could have had the united states slip from a recession into a depression. so looking back, we thought about it a lot. would we do the same thing again and testify on behalf of our competitors? i think it was critical to our country at the time. >> and you didn't need a bailout because you borrowed a lot of money earlier. >> we did. we went to the banks in 2006 with this plan to create a full family of vehicles to transform ford. the banks loved the plan. they loaned us $23.5 billion. and charlie, i'm just so pleased now that based on the strength of this product line, we have now repaid all of the $23.5 billion now. >> so you're riding a high here. and there are talks that you're ready to retire. >> really? charlie, what is that about? >> what's that rumor? >> well, you know, clearly -- >> a succession is in place that you may announce the new chief operating officer is mark fields. you want to make news here now? >> no, there's no news to be made. but clearly ford is a very important company for our country. the aut
states economy that if we wouldn't have helped out temporarily, that we could have had the united states slip from a recession into a depression. so looking back, we thought about it a lot. would we do the same thing again and testify on behalf of our competitors? i think it was critical to our country at the time. >> and you didn't need a bailout because you borrowed a lot of money earlier. >> we did. we went to the banks in 2006 with this plan to create a full family of vehicles...
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and there are very many other ways in which the united states can help us -- ways the united states can help us achieve our democratic ends, can help us build up the kind of democratic institutions that we are in such need of. sanctions are not the only way. we are very, very grateful for the fact that sanctions were instituted in the past. it's helped us greatly. i do not agree with those who say that sanctions hurt burma economically, but they certainly had a very great political effect and the fact that so many people try to blame sanctions for the economic ills of the country only proves how important it was as a weapon, not that it really hurt us economically. if you read the i.m.f., i think you will find sanctions in fact have very little economic impact in burma. >> i'm going to ask you a question that actually came from twitter. the question is, there are a number of cease-fire agreements and peace negotiations ongoing in burma with the various ethnic groups, what can the burmese government do to build trust with the ethnic groups and gain their confidence that the government is
and there are very many other ways in which the united states can help us -- ways the united states can help us achieve our democratic ends, can help us build up the kind of democratic institutions that we are in such need of. sanctions are not the only way. we are very, very grateful for the fact that sanctions were instituted in the past. it's helped us greatly. i do not agree with those who say that sanctions hurt burma economically, but they certainly had a very great political effect and...
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of the united states. bruce babbitt ran for president of the united states. i ran for president of the united states. arizona may be the only state in america where mothers don't tell their children that someday they can grow up and be president of the united states. [laughter] thank you all, it's wonderful being here. so many new hampshire jokes, my favorite one of always were mark udall, walked into a barbershop and said i'm from arizona and i am running for president of the united states. in the barber said, yeah, we were just laughing about that this morning. so thank you, charlie, thank you for your service to the state of new hampshire. thank you for your great service and the congress. charlie, i believe, has a great reputation of one of the hardest working members of the united states house of representatives. thank you, charlie for your continued service. bernie, thank you for your continued service as mayor. i had a great friend who is the mayor of scottsdale. one night, he kept his name and phon
of the united states. bruce babbitt ran for president of the united states. i ran for president of the united states. arizona may be the only state in america where mothers don't tell their children that someday they can grow up and be president of the united states. [laughter] thank you all, it's wonderful being here. so many new hampshire jokes, my favorite one of always were mark udall, walked into a barbershop and said i'm from arizona and i am running for president of the united states. in...
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>> well, in the citizens united era, we're moving dangerously close into a kind of corporate state mentality, where the corporations operate with impunity in the supreme court. and they're now endowed not with personhood rights, as some people think, but super personhood rights. because they have all kinds of protections that ordinary human beings don't have, like limited liability and perpetual life. and they continue to, you know, accrue wealth through the generations. but now they're given political free speech rights that people theoretically have. but of course, most american citizens don't have millions of dollars to spend in politics. but the corporations do. and it's, you know, a matter of chump change for them to put several million dollars into a campaign that could, you know, very much affect the direction of public policy. >> you live in new york, kaina, if you were explaining to another straphanger on a moving subway the impact on that person's life of citizens united, what would you tell her before the next stop? >> what's misunderstood is that money is not an abstraction. mone
>> well, in the citizens united era, we're moving dangerously close into a kind of corporate state mentality, where the corporations operate with impunity in the supreme court. and they're now endowed not with personhood rights, as some people think, but super personhood rights. because they have all kinds of protections that ordinary human beings don't have, like limited liability and perpetual life. and they continue to, you know, accrue wealth through the generations. but now they're...
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just again shows the guy is not qualified to be president of the united states. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." >>oh really? >>tax cuts don't create jobs. the golden years as the conservatives call them, we had the highest tax rates, and the highest amount of growth, and the highest amount of jobs. those are facts. >>"if you ever raise taxes on the rich, you're going to not true! >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." >> bill: 33 minutes after the hour now. here we go. the "full court press" on this tuesday morning. september 18. you know what it means. tuesdays at this time around the "full court press," it is judd time. tuesdays with judd. judd legum from think progress. judd, great to see you again. >> great to see you. >> bill: the big topic of the day you've been writing about it at think progress, not surprising you're on top of all of this breaking news, a individual yes released by mother jones. they got ahold of the video. they breached the second part of it today. this is mitt romney at a fund-raiser down in boca raton florida, in may. may 15 i think it wa
just again shows the guy is not qualified to be president of the united states. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." >>oh really? >>tax cuts don't create jobs. the golden years as the conservatives call them, we had the highest tax rates, and the highest amount of growth, and the highest amount of jobs. those are facts. >>"if you ever raise taxes on the rich, you're going to not true! >> announcer: this is the "bill press show."...
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he told me with this system, the united states was that far away, he held his fingers up about an inch apart from a total -- from a totalitarian turnkey state. the system is there for anybody that wants to to turn the key and turn this into basically a totalitarian state. under the bush administration, it was done secretly. it was only stopped when "the new york times" discovered it and reported it. >> as i look at this story i think look, a guy sitting in the middle of missouri says i'm a plumber, they can eavesdrop on me, i got nothing to do with al-qaeda, i don't really care. number one it's a huge constitutional problem start with al-qaeda, then truly dealers, then drug users then 50% of the country. the fact that this center is so large and equipped says to me they want to collect everybody's information includion the plumber in missouri just in case. >> well, you can see all the mistakes they make just on the no fly list. they have all these people on there that have never done anything. all these mistakes. the intelligence community is always making mistakes and they don't tell
he told me with this system, the united states was that far away, he held his fingers up about an inch apart from a total -- from a totalitarian turnkey state. the system is there for anybody that wants to to turn the key and turn this into basically a totalitarian state. under the bush administration, it was done secretly. it was only stopped when "the new york times" discovered it and reported it. >> as i look at this story i think look, a guy sitting in the middle of missouri...
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if you are an enemy of the united states we want to talk to you, engage you, apiece you. >> who really thinks bombing iran is a good idea? >> stephanie: netenyahu. >> exactly. >> stephanie: pam gellar. >> by condemning the movie, he is condemning freedom of expression, freedom of speech and he is also sanctioning these murderous rages. this is our first amendment right, and it protects all speech. not just ideas that we like but ideas that we don't like. we should be condemning the brutal blasphemy -- >> what the hell is she talking about? >> stephanie: yeah. how is it -- mitt romney finally condemned the content of the film. nobody is trying to say we're not having free speech anymore. they are saying this is disgusting. >> and designed to invoke provocation -- >> and free speech allows us to say that. >> stephanie: and the people behind it said they knew this would happen. isn't that a little close to yelling fire in a crowded theater. >> right. >> stephanie: this is exactly what we wanted to have happen. >> i think pamela gellar is a little too dense to understand. >> not jugs thoug
if you are an enemy of the united states we want to talk to you, engage you, apiece you. >> who really thinks bombing iran is a good idea? >> stephanie: netenyahu. >> exactly. >> stephanie: pam gellar. >> by condemning the movie, he is condemning freedom of expression, freedom of speech and he is also sanctioning these murderous rages. this is our first amendment right, and it protects all speech. not just ideas that we like but ideas that we don't like. we should...